ECH130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Laxative, Vomiting, Muscle Dysmorphia
29 May 2018
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Department
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Body Image
o Eating Disorders and Normative Discontent
o Children’s Body Image
o Parental Influences
o Media Influences
o What can educators and parents do?
Eating Disorders Clinical Conditions –
o Anorexia Nervosa
o Bulimia Nervosa
o Eating Disorder Not Otherwise Specified
o Binge Eating Disorder
Anorexia Nervosa:
o Restricted energy intake
o Fear of gaining weight
o Disturbed body image
o AN has the highest mortality rate of psychiatric illnesses
Bulimia Nervosa:
o Binge eating
o Eating a large amount of food within a relatively short period of time
(e.g. within 2 hours)
o Feeling a sense of loss of control while eating (e.g. feeling unable to
stop eating)
o Compensatory Behaviours
o Recurrent episodes of binge eating:
o Eating large amounts → in a discrete period of time (e.g. within any 2
hour period), eating an amount of food larger than most people would
eat
o Lack of control: a feeling that one cannot stop eating or control what or
how much one is eating
o Eating habits and feelings around food:
o 3 or more of following –
▪ Eating much more rapidly than normal
▪ Eating until feeling uncomfortably full
▪ Eating large amounts of food when not feeling physically
hungry
▪ Eating alone because of feeling embarrassed by how much one
is eating
▪ Feeling disgusted with oneself, depressed or very guilty
afterwards
Other Specified Feeding or Eating Disorder:
o A feeding or eating behaviours that cause clinically significant distress an id
impairment in areas of functioning, but do not meet the full criteria for any of
the other feeding and eating disorders
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